ウルフ賞 1993: 勝者

受賞者

1. 農業

   John E. Casida

   生物学

   for pioneering studies on the mode of action of insecticides, design of safer pesticides and contributions to the understanding of nerve and muscle function in insects.

2. 化学

   Ahmed H. Zewail

   化学

   for using ultrafast lasers in femtosecond time resolved measurements of the evolution of chemical reactions – thus obtaining the first direct observation of bond breakage in a molecule.

3. 数学

   Jacques Tits

   数学

   for his pioneering and fundamental contributions to the theory of the structure of algebraic and other classes of groups and in particular for the theory of buildings.

4. 数学

   Mikhail Gromov

   数学

   for his revolutionary contributions to global Riemannian and symplectic geometry, algebraic topology, geometric group theory and the theory of partial differential equations.

5. 物理学

   Benoit Mandelbrot

   物理学

   by recognizing the widespread occurrence of fractals and developing mathematical tools for describing them, he has changed our view of nature.